This was going to be a post about Memorial day, flags and history, but somehow deep thoughts with Jack Handey intruded and I spent part of my day to day thinking about the globe. That is, I read 5 issues of Businessweek, which had been stacked unread because of other things rising to a priority level. And so, now I’ve pieced together the latest global warning story and the picture isn’t too pretty.

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The Hour’s Robert Koch reports on this news:

Cranbury Park, Norwalk’s largest public open space, has several major wetlands, three types of forest cover and plenty of slopes subject to erosion.

That’s a brief overview of a recently completed environmental inventory of the 219-acre park located off Grumman Avenue in the northeast section of Norwalk. The city’s Department of Recreation and Parks, together with The Friends of Cranbury Park, envision the report becoming the basis for a master plan for the park.

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